Last race of the year! I didn’t talk a whole lot about racing in Arizona, because for a while I wasn’t sure I would be doing the race. I was injured back in September, even before doing Ironman Wisconsin, and had to take some weeks off running after that race. I worked hard to rehab the injury, having help from …
This was my biggest event of this first pro season. I had registered for IM Wisconsin last year, the day after the race when registration for Age Groupers opens at noon Mountain Time. My friend Jess and I sat by our computers and clicked away at the Register Now buttons, hoping hoping hoping we’d make it in before it filled …
Hometown Race. Well, Boulder is not literally my HOMEtown, but it’s where I’ve lived for the past seven and a half years so these roads, trails, and lakes are very familiar to me. I have never participated in this particular race, in all these years that I’ve been in Boulder and have trained and done other local races, so I …
I haven’t raced an Olympic Distance triathlon since about 2005, and I was looking forward to this one but was honestly a bit nervous I wouldn’t have the top-end speed it takes to really compete well at this distance. My coach Curt Chesney (Boulder, CO) has done a really great job training me; he has a lot of wisdom about …
Second triathlon of the season- Destination: Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock is about 600 miles from Boulder, in the northwestern part of the Lone Star State. The race I did is called Buffalo Springs Lake and it was another half Ironman distance tri (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run). This race has been around for about 22 years, and …
70.3 is the total mileage of a half ironman-distance triathlon. This includes a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and a 13.1 mile run (half marathon). Today was my first race as a professional triathlete, and it was a stellar day. I made the trip with three great people – Lauren Chiodini, Adam Bordeman, and Lucas McCain. We left …
This is a post-dated entry regarding my first race of this year: the Barkin’ Dog Duathlon, which was May 7th at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, CO. For anyone that doesn’t know, a Duathlon consists of running and biking – no swimming. There are three legs to the race, however; you run, then bike, then run again. This race …